"Pushing Daisies" -- A Bonobo Named Bobo
"Pushing Daisies"
Corpsicle
First Aired: 12/12/07
As the writer's strike claims victim after victim, there are precious few new episodes of our favorite shows left. This week's episode was the last "Pushing Daisies" for the near future, and cruelly, we're left with one of the biggest revelations so far, a big fat cliffhanger to leave us wanting more. At least we can console ourselves with the fact that Ned and Chuck come to a peaceful resolution about Ned's accidental killing of Chuck's dad, but then it was no surprise that our quirky little lovebirds couldn't stay apart for long.
Returning again is Paul Reubens as the strangely mole-like super-sniffer, Oscar Vibenius. His curiosity about Chuck's peculiar odor has not abated. Chuck, who's supremely morose after learning that her sweetie did her dad in, is nearly ready to tell Vibenius her big ugly secret. After fleeing Ned's apartment, Chuck hides out with Olive and moons about on the rooftop, avoiding the Piemaker, which is where she encounters Oscar. Oscar returns the sweater he stole and tells her that he's almost figured out why it is she smells the way she does - like honey and death - but he just needs a bit more of her hair. In a funk, Chuck hands over a hunk of hair and dares Oscar to do his worst.
The mystery of the week is mostly good for punchlines, but some are nice ones. After several insurance agents turn up frozen - beaten to death by a bat with the word 'kindness' inscribed on the side - Emerson and Ned put together that all three of the agents refused a surly teenager's request for a heart transplant, and some enterprising soul is hiding the corpses inside snowmen and planting them on young Abner Newsome's lawn like little frozen gifts.
The guilty party turns out to be Madeleine McLean, a representative of the Wish A Wish Foundation. Abner, who's not interested in going to Medieval Times or playing with her pet bonobo named Bobo, just wishes that the guys who turned him down for a new heart would go and die, so Madeleine heads off to kill them with kindness. Emerson and Ned sort all this out and catch up with Miss McLean as she's trying to do in yet another insurance agent, but she proves to be ready for them and pulls a gun. Fortunately for our heroes, Bobo - in an act that may have been an accident and may have been revenge for being named Bobo - puts her minivan in gear and runs Madeleine down. In a bit of serendipity, her heart is uninjured, and it gets passed on to surly young Abner Newsome, who is no doubt cheered up by his sudden change in fate.
As for Chuck, she asks Olive to make a pie to take to her aunts, since she's staying away from the Pie Hole. She gives Olive the mood enhancer and asks her to add it to the pie, claiming it's vanilla. Olive unthinkingly dumps the entire vial into the pie, as it doesn't taste like very strong vanilla. She heads off to Lily and Vivian, where Lily consumes the entire drugged pie on her own.
Meanwhile, Oscar returns, telling Chuck he wants her to confess her secrets of her own accord, but Chuck realizes that she's not really angry with Ned anymore, and further that she doesn't want the slightly creepy Oscar to know her secrets. Chuck goes to visit her dad's grave, where Ned eventually finds her, and they make their peace, Chuck mourning over her two missing parents.
However! It turns out that Chuck's mother is not as far out of reach as she might think. High on holistic mood enhancers, Lily starts hallucinating (including the image of a tiny crab made out of a cheese ball) and talks to an imaginary mermaid, confessing to her - and Olive, who happens to be in the room - that she is Chuck's mother! You can practically hear the dramatic chord as the credits roll, but who knows when we'll find out what happens next.
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